The 16 groups competing in ESL Professional League Season 22 Stage 2 are set following a primary stage filled with shock outcomes.
After six days of matches, the highest six groups from Stage 1 will compete in one other five-round Swiss stage alongside Stage 2 invitations for a spot within the Playoffs. Esports Insider checks out all the groups competing within the second stage of the match.
ESL Professional League Season 22 Stage 2 Groups
Happening from October 4th to eighth, 2025, Stage 2 of Professional League options 9 of the highest ten from September’s Valve Regional Standings (VRS), making it one of the aggressive phases of a Tier 1 match this 12 months.
Right here’s a more in-depth take a look at all the groups that look to advance to the Playoffs:
- Staff Spirit (Sept. VRS: 1st)
- Staff Vitality (Sept. VRS: 2nd)
- The MongolZ (Sept. VRS: third)
- MOUZ (Sept. VRS: 4th)
- Staff Falcons (Sept. VRS: fifth)
- Aurora Gaming (Sept. VRS: sixth)
- NAVI (Sept. VRS: seventh)
- 3DMAX (Sept. VRS: eighth)
- FURIA (Sept. VRS: tenth)
- Astralis (Sept. VRS: eleventh)
- FaZe Clan (Sept. VRS: twelfth)
- G2 Esports (Sept. VRS: fifteenth)
- GamerLegion (Sept. VRS: sixteenth)
- Light Mates (Sept. VRS: twenty sixth)
- Interior Circle Esports (Sept. VRS: thirty third)
- HOTU (Sept. VRS: 73rd)
The last-minute addition of Light Mates has confirmed fruitful. The all-Spanish roster took the spot beforehand held by Lynn Imaginative and prescient Gaming, ensuing within the group incomes a spot in Stage 1.
Light Mates kicked off Stage 1 with victories over HEROIC and G2 Esports, incomes precious VRS factors within the battle for a spot at November’s StarLadder Budapest Main. Regardless of a defeat to Interior Circle Esports in spherical three, the Spaniards swept apart Legacy in spherical 4 to safe a spot in Stage 2.
Elsewhere, Stage 2 marks the debut of a new-look FaZe Clan, after Russel ‘Twistzz‘ Van Dulken returned to the organisation instead of Håvard ‘rain‘ Nygaard, who departs FaZe after nearly a decade on the beginning lineup.
How To Watch ESL Professional League Season 22 Stage 2
Followers can tune into Stage 2 of ESL Professional League Season 22 Stage 2 from October 4th throughout ESL’s Twitch and YouTube channels. 5 rounds of matches will happen, with the highest eight groups advancing to the Playoffs, happening from October tenth to twelfth.
